memory · cognitive
Ask Prometheusthe ability of a person to keep information about previous events and retrieve it later
Memory (noun) means: the ability of a person to keep information about previous events and retrieve it later. It emerges from ability, information, event, find: The capacity to persist knowledge of past events enables retrieval when sought by a person. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 20, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- The Voyager 1 probe retains navigation data in radiation-hardened memory since 1977, still functioning at over 24 billion kilometers from Earth. engineering
- The hippocampus in London taxi drivers shows enlarged gray matter after memorizing complex city routes for the Knowledge exam. biology
- The Internet Archive saves snapshots of web pages, like the first Google homepage from 1998, retrievable decades later. computing
Emergence
through: The capacity to persist knowledge of past events enables retrieval when sought by a person.
- temporal persistence of knowledge
- recall on demand
- integration of retention and access
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (383 steps)
- memoryL20
- abilityL19
- energyL0
- regularL1
- processL4
- capacityL11
- enoughL8
- patternL0
- potentialL18
- openL17
- unoccupiedL9
- windowL7
- resultsL11
- changeL1
- differenceL1
- informationL6
- differenceL1
- marksL5
- patternL0
- eventL3
- findL6
- keepL5
- peopleL6
- previousL1
- timeL0
- laterL5
- abilityL19
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
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Relations
| is-a | ability.capacity | memory is a kind of ability |
| enables | information.knowledge | memory enables the use of stored information |